Vagrant Kafka Without Zookeeper

As some of you know, the Kafka project is working to stop using Zookeeper (KIP-500). And in current versions we already have a preview of this feature with Apache Kafka Raft.

Requisites

• Vagrant

Running Kafka

vagrant up

Wait for the whole process until you receive the message: kafka3: Finish instalation

The Kafka cluster will be available with the following addresses:

• 192.168.56.11:9092 (kafka1)
• 192.168.56.12:9092 (kafka2)
• 192.168.56.13:9092 (kafka3)

Testing

With the kafka cli installed on the host we can issue some commands to the cluster:

kafka-topics.sh --create --topic topic_test --partitions 5 --replication-factor 1 --bootstrap-server 192.168.56.11:9092,192.168.56.12:9092,192.168.56.13:9092
Created topic topic_test.

kafka-topics.sh --list --bootstrap-server 192.168.56.11:9092,192.168.56.12:9092,192.168.56.13:9092
topic_test